MaintainX

Principal AI Platform Engineer

MaintainX
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5 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the Agent, Skill, and Tool architecture for reasoning, planning, collaboration, discoverability, reuse, permission-aware data access, and progressive autonomy
  • Architect and scale the context graph, retrieval systems, and knowledge systems for customer-specific intelligence and cross-asset reasoning
  • Own agent orchestration, the MCP tool registry, reproducible developer environments, and observability capabilities
  • Design offline and online evaluation systems so user feedback improves agent performance
  • Drive technical alignment and platform adoption across product engineering divisions and hold engineering leaders accountable
  • Set company-wide AI platform strategy, make high-leverage architectural decisions, and represent MaintainX engineering internally and externally

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in backend systems, distributed architecture, or platform/infrastructure engineering
  • 3+ years building ML- or LLM-powered systems in production, including experience with evaluation, latency, cost, and reliability
  • Track record of company-wide technical leadership at the Principal level and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams
  • Experience building internal platforms for engineering customers, including adoption, documentation, enablement, and developer ergonomics
  • Strong Python backend expertise and experience designing APIs, services, and data pipelines
  • Ability to write clear design documents, facilitate technical decisions across teams, and represent engineering externally
  • Production experience with agentic systems, multi-agent orchestration, tool use, or skill registries is preferred
  • Experience with MCP, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, RAG pipelines, vector databases, embedding strategies, or knowledge graphs is preferred
  • Experience in B2B SaaS, industrial software, IoT/OT, or other reliability-sensitive, domain-specific environments is preferred

Benefits

  • Equity and variable compensation aligned to role and location
  • Day-1 health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Work from San Francisco, Toronto, or Montreal hubs, or remotely across the United States and Canada

Tech Stack

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About MaintainX

501-1,000 employees

MaintainX builds a mobile-first CMMS and work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams to manage work orders, assets, preventive maintenance, and inspections. The company sells its software as a subscription to manufacturers, facilities, and multi-site operators. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, MaintainX is part of Autodesk and is used by well-known brands such as McDonald’s and Duracell.

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